From hakim.cassimally at gmail.com Tue Apr 12 20:57:43 2016 From: hakim.cassimally at gmail.com (Hakim C) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:57:43 +0100 Subject: [northwestengland.pm] Fwd: [lambda-lounge-manchester] Haskell is an acceptable Perl - The Lambda Lounge 7pm this monday (18th April 2016) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello! I went and volunteered to talk at Lambdalounge, sort-of-about Perl. Hope to see some of you next Monday ;-) Hakim / osfameron ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rick Moynihan Date: 12 April 2016 at 21:51 Subject: [lambda-lounge-manchester] Haskell is an acceptable Perl - The Lambda Lounge 7pm this monday (18th April 2016) To: "lambda-lounge-manchester at googlegroups.com" < lambda-lounge-manchester at googlegroups.com>, nwrug-members at googlegroups.com, python-north-west at googlegroups.com, geekup at googlegroups.com, xp-manchester at googlegroups.com This Monday (18th April @7pm) the Lambda Lounge is meeting with a presentation by Hakim Cassimally on how Haskell is an acceptable Perl. http://www.lambdalounge.org.uk/ So, Haskell is "an advanced purely-functional programming language" which supports writing "declarative, statically typed code". It may be optimized for academic buzzwords you've never heard of but... is it any good for writing code in the way that you'd write Perl, Python, or Ruby? What are strong types, and why are we so frightened of them anyway? Can you develop interactively in Haskell, the way you would in a dynamic language? Does Haskell have "whipuptitude" (being able to get things done quickly) as well as "manipulexity" (being able to manipulate complex things)? And perhaps most importantly, can writing Haskell be *fun*? Rick. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Manchester Lambda Lounge" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to lambda-lounge-manchester+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to lambda-lounge-manchester at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: